Quarantine – it’s not for everyone.
Posted by Ian Mannix | Dec 18, 2020 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
Global warming warning – how would you do it...
Posted by Ian Mannix | Sep 4, 2020 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
Leave no-one behind – ethics of Warnings (Pa...
Posted by Ian Mannix | May 25, 2019 | Alerts, Bushfires, Disaster, emergency agency, Emergency Broadcasting, Warnings | 0 |
lake conjola…did the warnings fail?
Posted by Ian Mannix | Jun 9, 2020 | Alerts, Bushfires, Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
Quarantine – it’s not for everyone.
by Ian Mannix | Dec 18, 2020 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
“Quarantine – it’s not for everyone. North Terrace: December 18: 1100: We’re not joking...
Read Moreif it’s Flooded – you probably wont have a clue!
by Ian Mannix | Oct 11, 2020 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
What do you think when you look at the image to the right? Is it safe to drive through that...
Read MoreLeave no-one behind – ethics of Warnings (Part three)
by Ian Mannix | May 25, 2019 | Alerts, Bushfires, Disaster, emergency agency, Emergency Broadcasting, Warnings | 0 |
The United Nations has a phrase we all need to get used too: ”..leave no-one behind.” How important is that for emergency agencies issuing warnings? It’s a phrase heard frequently at UN meetings around the...
Read MoreBody Count: How Climate change is killing us.
by Ian Mannix | Sep 3, 2020 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
Book review: It’s hard to remember now but its only 20 years since there were no such things as emergency warnings in Australia. When a bushfire broke out people at risk would smell the smoke; feel the heat, maybe receive...
Read Morelake conjola…did the warnings fail?
by Ian Mannix | Jun 9, 2020 | Alerts, Bushfires, Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
Residents of the seaside town of Lake Conjola, in NSW, have told ABC 730 that they did not receive...
Read MorePeople didn’t fail during #Covid19, health authorities did.
by Ian Mannix | May 11, 2020 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
HEALTH COMMUNICATORS SHOULD FOLLOW TRUSTED METHODS TO IMPROVE RESPONSE TO PANDEMICS AND OTHER HAZARDS TO SAVE LIVES By Ian Mannix May 1, 2020 Article written for Croakey News Australia is experiencing its worst natural hazard...
Read MoreImprovements needed to safeguard vulnerable people facing natural and man made hazards.
by Ian Mannix | May 4, 2020 | Alerts, Bushfires, CFA, CFS, Cyclones, emergency agency, Emergency Broadcasting, EMQ, FEMA, Health warnings, New Principles of Australian Warnings, SES, Warnings | 0 |
Submission to The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with...
Read MoreHealth ”information” or ”warnings”
by Ian Mannix | Jun 1, 2019 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
The biggest killers of human beings are not natural disasters, but health related man-made disasters – smoking, TB, vaccine-preventable illnesses; mental health. Health authorities have rheems of information about these...
Read MoreEthical approach to warnings (part two): when we know, but fail to act.
by Ian Mannix | May 18, 2019 | Emergency Broadcasting | 0 |
The woman called ”Lifeline” during Black Saturday and said: ”I’m surrounded by flames. My husband just drove out the gate in our car and yelled at me: ”I hope you burn, bitch.” This was a...
Read MoreAn ethical approach can improve Effective Warnings – but it’s often missing.
by Ian Mannix | May 12, 2019 | Alerts, emergency agency, Emergency Broadcasting, Featured, New Principles of Australian Warnings | 0 |
Recently I have had an opportunity to discuss with an NGO a forecast heavy rain event, and was reminded that many organisations, including civil society-based NGOs and local government still do not see ”saving lives”...
Read MorePersonalised warnings work
by Ian Mannix | Jul 29, 2015 | Emergency Broadcasting, Featured | 0 |
(This item was written by Ronda Oberlin. It is not my habit to cut and paste other’s work...
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About Ian
Journalist, author of Great Australian Bushfire Stories and Great Australian Flood Stories, and former Manager of Emergency Broadcasting and Community Development at ABC Local Radio.
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